Unix in Windows

The love hate rela­tion­ship that is the com­mand line and Win­dows. Any­one that has used Linux and has mas­tered the ter­mi­nal, feels very unpro­duc­tive on Win­dows. I for one feel like that. Too much click­ing, give me a TUI (Text User Inter­face)!Recently Pow­er­Shell gave Unix peo­ple new hope, that times...

Breath of Fresh Air

My deci­sion has been made, change is my future. I have offi­cially decided to leave my place of employ­ment. As of Mon­day my res­ig­na­tion will be made public.A sense of free­dom and relief just hit me. The deci­sion is lib­er­at­ing. But at same time a slight hint of sad­ness remains....

Evil Google

Google’s “do no evil” motto, is start­ing to be a joke. As the com­pany evolves, it’s adding new ser­vices and “improve­ments” to its site. I for one am not happy with them.What ser­vices are irri­tat­ing me, you may ask? Well, there are a cou­ple, geolo­ca­tion, sin­gle signon and secu­rity, just to...

Unhappy Engineer

What makes an unhappy engi­neer? As of late, I’ve been try­ing to answer this ques­tion. Recent events have made be think more and more about this topic. Work used to give me plea­sure, now it’s a chore.I remem­ber a time, not long ago, where I could start and fin­ish a day within...

The Destruction That is Plesk

I did it again, I put my trust in Plesk. Wanted to do some more cleanup, and ended up with very squeaky clean site.I’m start­ing to think I should do back­ups before every oper­a­tion in Plesk. Let me show you, yet another way, how you can destroy your site. Cleanup Again?I wasn’t sat­is­fied...

The world, as seen through my eyes.

The love hate rela­tion­ship that is the com­mand line and Win­dows. Any­one that has used Linux and has mas­tered the ter­mi­nal, feels very unpro­duc­tive on Win­dows. I for one feel like that. Too much click­ing, give me a TUI (Text User Inter­face)!Recently Pow­er­Shell gave Unix peo­ple new hope, that times...

My deci­sion has been made, change is my future. I have offi­cially decided to leave my place of employ­ment. As of Mon­day my res­ig­na­tion will be made public.A sense of free­dom and relief just hit me. The deci­sion is lib­er­at­ing. But at same time a slight hint of sad­ness remains....

Google’s “do no evil” motto, is start­ing to be a joke. As the com­pany evolves, it’s adding new ser­vices and “improve­ments” to its site. I for one am not happy with them.What ser­vices are irri­tat­ing me, you may ask? Well, there are a cou­ple, geolo­ca­tion, sin­gle signon and secu­rity, just to...

What makes an unhappy engi­neer? As of late, I’ve been try­ing to answer this ques­tion. Recent events have made be think more and more about this topic. Work used to give me plea­sure, now it’s a chore.I remem­ber a time, not long ago, where I could start and fin­ish a day within...

I did it again, I put my trust in Plesk. Wanted to do some more cleanup, and ended up with very squeaky clean site.I’m start­ing to think I should do back­ups before every oper­a­tion in Plesk. Let me show you, yet another way, how you can destroy your site. Cleanup Again?I wasn’t sat­is­fied...

Get­ting ready to go live, every­thing was almost there. The domain name was pur­chased, just had to do some cleanup. The ini­tial ver­sion of this site was installed via the Plesk Panel on another domain, I just had to copy over the web app.One mis­guided click and the entire web­site...

Now me being a proficient Linux person I thought cool, this will reduce the amount of work I have to do. I will be able to do everything either from the GUI or the command line, I said to myself. It's not until I looked at what was happening on the actual machine, when my smile vanished off my face......

Think­ing about start­ing to write, you know get­ting a blog… Do you have the urge to open up, and share with the world. Let me present two ways on how some­one may starts such an endeavor.Our first story will look at your aver­age Joe, some­one look­ing to start as quickly...